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I do screen work, adult books, kids books and comic stuff, which gives me a pretty full plate. The problem is usually choosing which one I want to work on next. -- Chris Wooding
I never read comic books as a kid. -- Al Jourgensen
My books are just pure escapism for kids. -- Dav Pilkey
I was into comic books as a kid. -- Len Wiseman
My kids' books all have a darkness to them. -- David Small
I love comic books and always did as a kid. -- Rick Moody
I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome. -- Donald Glover
I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid. -- Carl Hiaasen
I don't think any of my kids' books talk down to kids. -- Roz Chast
I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too. -- Tom Felton
I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce. -- Rick Riordan
I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution. -- Caroline Kennedy
I love making books for children. Big kids, little kids, old kids and new. -- Tony DiTerlizzi
My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids. -- Berkeley Breathed
I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do. -- Paula Danziger
Jeff Kinney's 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' series and Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight' books got 49,323,701 kids reading. -- Jon Scieszka
Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading. -- Tyler Hilton
My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books. -- Jerry Spinelli
I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books. -- Mark Haddon
I still love comic books. When you have a kid, that's an excuse to keep reading all the comic books. -- Jimmy Kimmel
I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels. -- Kid Rock
Books don't harm kids; they arm them. -- Mem Fox
Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books, -- Maurice Sendak
Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world. -- Michael Morpurgo
If we expose kids to books and art, nothing but good can come from it. -- Kevin Henkes
To come out and meet kids who have my books in their hands is kind of amazing. -- Jeff Kinney
I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha! -- Brian Jacques
I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value. -- R. L. Stine
I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid. -- Judy Blume
I am inspired by positive people who have overcome difficult obstacles, motivational/spiritual books, nature, and my kids. -- Andrea Navedo
Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games. -- Ang Lee
What kids are exposed to on television is more frightening and horrifying than what they see in my books. -- Chris Van Allsburg
No one thinks that young adults read hooks for YOUNG ADULTS, books for young adults are read by kids. -- Terry Pratchett
I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion. -- Jesse Ventura
That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids. -- Jean Craighead George
It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like. -- James Patterson
For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time. -- Anne Enright
I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt. -- Dana Spiotta
I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what its like to really adore something. -- Todd Lowe
I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what it's like to really adore something. -- Todd Lowe
People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do. -- Oscar Hijuelos
I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas. -- Catherine Jinks
If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up. -- Robert Munsch
I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys. -- Joanne Harris
There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books. -- James Patterson
I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be buying them. -- Beverly Cleary
I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It's just another form of conservative fear that promotes ignorance more than anything else. -- Adam Rapp
I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children. -- Ray Bradbury
It's the best - combining the mediums of television, documentary, and books, to give you this transmedia experience for kids, for families, and for teachers. -- Jeff Corwin
I understand why parents worry about books - they're worried about their kids. They want to keep their kids safe. But parents aren't always realistic. -- Lauren Myracle
The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another. -- James Patterson
Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids! -- Jim Rohn
As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
I want children to be glued to interactive books that encourage singing and dancing. I feel when kids work together it brings about a different energy. -- Lisa Loeb
Dark books do appeal to kids because they have nice, sheltered lives - and they also appeal to children who are going through pretty hard times themselves." -- Melissa de la Cruz
It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I don't want to do that. -- Chris Van Allsburg
Dark books do appeal to kids because they have nice, sheltered lives - and they also appeal to children who are going through pretty hard times themselves. -- Melissa de la Cruz
I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books. -- Ellen Potter
My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me), shopping, driving somewhere, seeing different things. -- Mary Engelbreit
When I'm not writing or working on books as a publisher, I'm doing things that make me happy. One is skiing with my kids and husband. I love sports. -- Andrea Davis Pinkney
I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV. -- Matt Groening
I watch some kids ask the cafeteria ladies to sign their books. What do they write: "Hope your chicken patties never bleed?" Or, maybe, "May your Jell-O always wiggle? -- Laurie Halse Anderson

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